Digging Up Dead Kids (*may trigger*)

There is a slideshow over on Yahell this morning featuring a place that I've read about:  The Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys in Marianna, Florida.  People are digging for the remains of boys that died there and were buried there.  Here is the link to the story:  http://news.yahoo.com/photos/remains-at-ex-florida-reform-school-1378296422-slideshow/ .

The more boring a child is, the more the parents, when showing off the child, receive adulation for being good parents-- because they have a tame child-creature in their house.  ~~  Frank Zappa


I've read Roger Dean Kiser's books.  The first one I read was titled The White House Boys.  It was pretty difficult stuff.  Up through 1968, the boys were separated into "whites" and "coloreds."  Kiser says the black kids were treated even worse.  The White House refers to a building where the boys were forced to lay face down on an old stained mattress and beaten [note: not "spanked," as that is a far too sanitized word for what happened over there] for such infractions as smoking, uttering a curse word after falling and injuring himself, or attempting escape.  Kiser described underwear having to be picked out from the boys' buttocks afterwards, a lot of blood, and welts.  Boys were sent there for such "crimes" as running away from home, truancy, or having nowhere else to go through no fault of their own.

The more boring a child is, the more the parents, when showing off the child, receive adulation for being good parents-- because they have a tame child-creature in their house.  ~~  Frank Zappa


Four survivors of the place came forward initially.  Kiser was one of them.  Then more came.  The White House was sealed in a nifty little ceremony.  Today the school is closed and bodies are being dug up at the cemetery on the school grounds.

The more boring a child is, the more the parents, when showing off the child, receive adulation for being good parents-- because they have a tame child-creature in their house.  ~~  Frank Zappa


The comments on the slideshow are interesting, ranging from "I was there" to "Nothing happened there get over it folks" to "Those kids deserved it" to "Kids today need to be physically disciplined."  And perhaps a bit more by now.

The more boring a child is, the more the parents, when showing off the child, receive adulation for being good parents-- because they have a tame child-creature in their house.  ~~  Frank Zappa

http://www.teenadvocatesusa.org/

We who are so advanced and so civilized and so committed to our various and sundry religions and quasi-religions sit around congratulating ourselves.  Now those kids will get to be buried in family plots.  We don't do this sort of thing anymore.  Once in awhile, a kid needed a couple of stitches after a session at The White House.  No big deal.  Nothing much happened there.  Some of us were helped by the corporeal punishment.  Pour me another one.

 The more boring a child is, the more the parents, when showing off the child, receive adulation for being good parents-- because they have a tame child-creature in their house.  ~~  Frank Zappa

http://wwaspsurvivors.com/youth-foundation-success-academy-youth-foundation-inc/

This sort of thing does happen today.  Oh, not the clandestine graves off in the woods or on a hill somewhere perhaps.  There are kids-- so-called "troubled teens"-- stuck in places which will turn them into tractable robots because of alleged or real drug experimentation, addiction issues, dysfunctional homes, cursing, acting out, difficulties in school and more.  A teen can be sent away today for a price.  A handsome sum of money will get your teen a sub-standard academic education, little to no medical treatment or dentistry, exposure to cult-like seminars, time in isolation rooms like The Hobbit.  A bit more money and you don't even have to take your teen there.  People will show up at your home and remove your teen to such a place.  Congratulations.  If your teen survives the experience somewhat intact, your problems will be solved.

The more boring a child is, the more the parents, when showing off the child, receive adulation for being good parents-- because they have a tame child-creature in their house.  ~~  Frank Zappa

http://wwaspsurvivors.com/new-york-times-students-recall-special-schools-run-like-prisons/

You will be informed by the administration that your "troubled teen" will lie to you about conditions at the ahem, residential school.  He or she will lie to you about mistreatment there.  Don't worry.  It's a phase they all go through in order to manipulate you into pulling them out of there and taking them home.  Your telephone conversations with your teen will be monitored by staff.  The letters you receive from your teen will be censored and re-written until they are up to specs.  It's all good.

The more boring a child is, the more the parents, when showing off the child, receive adulation for being good parents-- because they have a tame child-creature in their house.  ~~  Frank Zappa

http://wwaspsurvivors.com/another-lawsuit-filed-against-cross-creek-manor/

At the seminars that you and your teen are present at, your teen will willingly "confess" to consuming large quantities of drugs, selling drugs, sleeping around.  You knew the problem was "bad" but you had no idea.  Your teen didn't have any idea either.  If your teen had been raped, she [I could not find any stories of this being done to males there] will have been made to confess to her slutty and whorish behaviors.  Because everybody knows that people who are rape survivors placed a part in their own sexual assaults.

The more boring a child is, the more the parents, when showing off the child, receive adulation for being good parents-- because they have a tame child-creature in their house.  ~~  Frank Zappa

http://wwaspsurvivors.com/youth-foundation-success-academy-youth-supervisor-charged-for-showing-porn-to-students/

You are glad that the ahem, educational consultant helped you find this wonderful Youth Foundation [or whatever WWASPS' current entity name is] or other such agency.  You are doing the ultimate.  You are engaged in "saving your troubled teen's life."  There was nothing else you could do.  And now, your wonder boy or wonder girls is returning to the fold.  Your "troubled teen" is respectful.  Wow.  He or she even asks permission to go to the bathroom.

The more boring a child is, the more the parents, when showing off the child, receive adulation for being good parents-- because they have a tame child-creature in their house.  ~~  Frank Zappa

http://wwaspsurvivors.com/

Or, maybe your "troubled teen" wasn't so lucky.  Maybe your "troubled teen" got raped, beaten, thrown into isolation for days, weeks, months at a time.  Maybe your "troubled teen" came home broken, is still in treatment for the stuff that happened at that darling ahem residential school, has nightmares, had a psychotic break, can barely function.  Or maybe your "troubled teen" didn't survive the treatment that was supposed to fix him or her.  Dead kids don't talk back.

The more boring a child is, the more the parents, when showing off the child, receive adulation for being good parents-- because they have a tame child-creature in their house.  ~~  Frank Zappa

http://wwaspsurvivors.com/the-troubled-teen-industry/

Or maybe you pulled your "troubled teen" out of the ahem, residential treatment place/school because something wasn't right.  Maybe you've apologized.  Maybe you are all endeavoring to learn how to "be."  Maybe you all will succeed on some level and maybe you won't.  Your "troubled teen" is shell-shocked.  But at least your "troubled teen" is not dead.

The more boring a child is, the more the parents, when showing off the child, receive adulation for being good parents-- because they have a tame child-creature in their house.  ~~  Frank Zappa

http://wwaspsurvivors.com/documentary-locked-in-paradise/

Those "troubled teens" who remain un-brainwashed after their tortured existence at one of those places is spending time on the web at survivor sites, has met or re-connected with others who also remain un-brainwashed, has become Anonymous and is working on something called OpLiberation, is writing or has written poetry or essays or a book, makes art, is now some sort of public speaker and activist.  And you don't know what happened to make him or her turn out this way.  After all, the ahem residential school promised you a tractable teen.  What you have here in your home now is an angry young adult.  You don't understand that your angry young adult is engaged in a process of liberation.  You are dumbfounded as your angry young adult moves out, moves on, moves away.

The more boring a child is, the more the parents, when showing off the child, receive adulation for being good parents-- because they have a tame child-creature in their house.  ~~  Frank Zappa

 
In sadness and in solidarity,
radical sapphoq


references regarding The Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys:

http://global.christianpost.com/news/arthur-g-dozier-school-for-boys-killed-nearly-100-youth-remains-excavated-on-school-grounds-103552/

http://www.examiner.com/article/horrors-at-arthur-g-dozier-school-for-boys-victims-speak-out

http://thewhitehouseboys.com/abusereport.pdf

http://thewhitehouseboys.blogspot.com/

http://justin-caldwell.blogspot.com/

http://thewhitehouseboysonline.com/

http://www.thewhitehouseboysblog.com/index.html